Bacon, Margaret Hope. But
One Race : the Life of Robert Purvis. Albany
: State University
of New York Press, c2007.

"Born in South Carolina to a
wealthy white father and mixed race mother, Robert Purvis (1810-1898) was one of
the nineteenth century's leading black abolitionists and orators. In this first
biography of Purvis, Margaret Hope Bacon uses his eloquent and often fierce
speeches to provide a glimpse into the life of a passionate and distinguished
man, intimately involved with a wide range of major reform movements, including
abolition, civil rights, Underground Railroad activism, women's rights, Irish
Home Rule, Native American rights, and prison reform. Citing his role in
developing the Philadelphia Vigilant Committee, an all black organization that
helped escaped slaves secure passage to the North, the New York Times described
Purvis at the time of his death as the president of the Underground Railroad.
Voicing his opposition to a decision by the state of Pennsylvania to
disenfranchise black voters in 1838, Purvis declared "there is but one race, the
human race." But One Race is the dramatic story of one of the most
important figures of his time."--Book jacket.

Barnett, Paul W. (Paul Wright).
The Quaker Preacher : a Compilation of the Life History and Travel to
Africa of the Rev. Paul W. Barnett thru His
Letters and Photos. Compiled by Harlan P. Barnett. Olympia, WA : H.P. Barnett, c2006.

"Following in the wake of what one
noted scientist called "transients who neither revered nor cared for the ruins
as symbols of the past," the Wetherill family became the earliest students of
Mesa Verde. Their careful excavations and record-keeping helped preserve key
information, leading to a deeper understanding of the people who built and
occupied the cliff dwellings. As devout Quakers, they felt they were predestined
to protect the prehistoric sites from wanton destruction - a role that would not
be assumed by the government or other major institutions until years later.
Based on decades of meticulous research, author Fred Blackburn sets the record
straight on these early protectors of Mesa Verde. Book jacket."--Book jacket.

Benjamin Kite Wetherill served as Indian agent to the Osage. His sons
discovered Mesa Verde.

Briggs, Benjamin. "Set Thy
House in Order: George C. Mendenhall's New Order of Carolina Quakerism."
The Southern Friend 28.2 (2006), 30-43.

Calvert Jane E.. "The Quaker
Theory of a Civil Constitution." History of Political Thought 27.4
(2006), pages 586-619.

Throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, representations
of Quakers---like the Quaker Oats man---were perennially popular, on oatmeal
canisters and throughout popular culture. In this dissertation, I examine
popular representations of Quakers---in jokes, popular magazines, novels,
images, advertising and other media---from 1850 to 1920. I also consider, where
possible, Friends' reactions to these depictions. During this period, popular
representations of Friends typically evidence a longing for the devout
distinctiveness Friends were imagined to possess---evidenced by their plain
dress, plain speech, and well-known restrictions against dishonesty and
oath-swearing. The traditional and visible testimonies of Friends were quickly
changing during the latter half of the nineteenth century. This evolution seemed
to quicken the broader population's desire to retain and refashion a
plain-dressed, old-fashioned representative of a national purity, piety, and
unity that never existed. The most striking features of Quakers depicted
in nineteenth century literatures and images center around the following
categories: plain speech, abolitionism and women's rights, pacifism and war,
plain dress (in the form of the Quaker bonnet), and the (in)famous Quaker Oats
man. --From the author's abstract.

This is the first comprehensive
introduction to Quakerism which balances a history of the theology of the
Quakers or Friends with an overview of present day practice. It charts the
growth of the Quaker movement through the 1650s and 1660s, its different
theological emphasis in the eighteenth century, and the schisms of the
nineteenth century which resulted in the range of Quaker traditions found around
the world today. The book focuses in particular on notions of 'endtime,'
'spiritual intimacy', and what counts as 'the world' as key areas of theological
change.

Many members of these families were Quakers; there was an association
with Chester County,
Pennsylvania.Members of the Schraeder/Gilbert families were connected with the Peirce
family; the Peirce arboretum was purchased by Pierre du Pont and become part of
what would become LongwoodGardens (p. 119).Appendix one: "Revolutionary War episode, Benjamin Gilbert (1711-1780)
& Elizabeth Walton (1725-1810)" gives a one-page description of their Indian
captivity [1780-1782].

Janney, Paulena Stevens. The
Civil War Period Journals of Paulena Stevens Janney, 1859-1866, edited and
annotated by Christie Hill Russell.

Baltimore, MD :
Gateway Press, Inc., 2007.

Paulena (Stevens) Janney was an
eighteen-year-old Quaker bride when she began writing journals spanning the
years 1859-1866. She recorded daily life in the rural Ohio community of Martinsville, ClintonCounty, in the mid-nineteenth
century.

"Eighteenth-century Pennsylvanians killed and abused each other at a pace
that outstripped most of their English and American contemporaries and rivaled
some of the worst crime rates in the following 200 years. They victimized their
kin and neighbors as well as their enemies and rivals, and the powerful as well
as the weak. And yet the land they populated was captioned the "Holy
Experiment," renowned as the "best poor man's country on earth," and
memorialized as the "PeaceableKingdom." Troubled Experiment
chronicles the extravagant crime in this unlikely place and explains how the
disparity between reputation and reality arose."...The authors conclude by
depicting Pennsylvania - vaunted as an
enlightened, free society - as a community suffering from the problems of crime
that plague America today."--From the book
jacket.

This project is an investigation into the Vaux family's landscape images
and the cultural and idiosyncratic elements that informed their vision of nature
as a sublime wilderness. My study examines the role of the Quaker faith, Purist
photography practice, and tourism contexts in shaping their perception and, by
extension, photographic depiction of the glaciers and Rocky
Mountains. The Vauxes were dedicated to nature, as for over thirty
years they made annual summer retreats to the mountain parks. The family
pioneered glacier study in Canada, and their photographs chart
not only glacier recession but also their enchantment with wilderness. The
photographs depict nature as a numinous place, yet as Philadelphians traveling
on the Canadian Pacific Railway in the late-19th and early-20th centuries, the
Vauxes witnessed the growing presence of tourism in the parks. This thesis
explores the ambiguity in the meaning of nature and its relationship to personal
and cultural constructs.--Author's abstract.

Moore, R. "Late
Seventeenth-Century Quakerism and the Miraculous: a New Look at George Fox's
'Book of Miracles.'" Studies in Church History 41 (2005),
335-344.

Moretta, John. William Penn
and the Quaker Legacy. New
York : Pearson Longman, c2007.

"John A. Moretta's biography of
William Penn follows the Quaker leader as he carries out his progressive and
radical 'holy experiment' in the wilderness of the New
World. Pennsylvania became the most commercially
successful colonial enterprise in English history. Moreover, Penn transplanted
the Quaker values of equality, pacifism, and acceptance of diversity, which
eventually came to define the greater American creed." "This book features: the
integration of English history with Penn's personal struggles and
accomplishments (and shows how specific events affected Penn and the Quakers);
thorough coverage of the Quaker faith provides insight into Penn's motivations
and actions; chapter-ending summaries provide a synopsis of important events in
Penn's life and chart Penn's evolution from peaceful Quaker to profit-making
colonizer; and study and discussion questions at the end of the book help
students check their reading and comprehension. These questions may also be used
to facilitate discussions in the classroom or student study groups."--Book
jacket.

Nicholas, Mark A. "A Little
School, a Reservation Divided: Quaker Education and Allegany Seneca Leadership
in the Early AmericanRepublic." American Indian Culture and
Research Journal 30.3 (2006), 1.

Nieuwerth, Kees and Fritz
Renken. "A Plea for Freedom of Religion: William Penn and Friends in Emden." Translated and
edited by Marieke Faber Clarke. The Journal of the Friends Historical
Society 61.1 (2006), 45-50.

Walsham, Alexandra.
Charitable Hatred : Tolerance and Intolerance in England, 1500-1700. Manchester ; New York :
Manchester University Press ; New York :
Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2006.

"Charitable Hatred offers a
challenging new perspective on religious tolerance and intolerance in early
modern England. Setting aside traditional
models that chart a linear path from persecution to toleration, it emphasizes
instead the complex interplay between these two impulses in the sixteenth and
seventeenth centuries. The book examines the intellectual assumptions that
underpinned attitudes towards religious minorities and the institutional
structures and legal mechanisms by which they were both repressed and
accommodated. It also explores the social realities of prejudice and
forbearance, hostility and harmony at the level of the neighbourhood and
parish."--Book jacket.

Jonathan Wright Plummer, an Illinois Quaker businessman and
philanthropist, was a founder of the Friends' Union for Philanthropic Labor; its conferences eventually
would lead indirectly to become the Friends General Conference.

Wirth, Thomas. "So Many Things
for His Profit and for His Pleasure: British and Colonial Naturalists Respond to
an Enlightenment Creed, 1727–1777," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and
Biography, Vol. 131, no. 2 (April 2007),p. 127-140.

Wright, Sheila. "Town and
Country: Living as a Friend in Urban and Rural Yorkshire 1780-1860." The Journal of the Friends
Historical Society 61.1 (2006),
3-29.